Legrand Product Lines Achieve IDW Programmatic Excellence

WEST HARTFORD, Conn.—Legrand North
America (LNA), the global specialist in electrical and digital building
infrastructures, today announced their achievement of Excellence within
the Industry Data Exchange Association, Inc.’s (IDEA) data certification
program.

IDEA’s Industry Data Warehouse (IDW)
certification program has long been a way for electrical manufacturers to
provide secure access to accurate and comprehensive product information for
electrical channel distribution partners. The program ensures that distributors
have access to high quality data on the products they sell without having to
maintain a multitude of databases on their own, and LNA’s participation is a key
component in the company’s commitment to supporting its distribution partners
and the electrical community.

All nine Legrand product lines in the IDW,
encompassing more than 16,000 SKUs, exceed the minimum standards for
Compliance, a measure of data comprehensiveness, and for Excellence, a measure
of data quality. In assessing products, the program evaluates 43 critical data
fields for each product. All LNA products in the database exceed IDW’s
requirement of a minimum score of 95 percent for both Compliance and
Excellence, and some product lines achieved 100 percent for both metrics.

LNA products within the IDW certification
program span several company divisions, including Building Control Systems
(Wattstopper), Electrical Wiring Systems (On-Q/Nuvo/Pass &
Seymour,Cablofil/Wiremold), Data Communications (Ortronics), Commercial AV
(Middle Atlantic) and the adorne collection.

“At Legrand we are committed to offering our
customers nothing less than best-in-class customer service, and a critical
component in that mission is providing them with the resources they need to
deliver the same high level of service to their clients,” said John Selldorff,
CEO, Legrand, North America. “That’s why merely meeting the IDW standards
wasn’t sufficient — we listened to our customers, took the task seriously and
were determined to exceed the requirements, which we did. We will continue to
take steps toward achieving full data certification across the product lines we
currently have in their system.”